Lunch-room table.



Patented June 5, 1917.

m M mm IA M H C ,b F. Dn D M W D E ATTORNE EDWARD REISCHMANN, 0F NEW YORK, 1\T. Y.

LUNCH-ROOM TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jnne 5, 1917.

Application led January 7, 1916. Serial No. 70,794.

To all @f1/0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD REISGHMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew York, in the county of the Bronx and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lunch-Room Tables, of which the following as a specification.

This invention relates to a lunch room table and has as its principal object to provide a device of this character adapted to accommodate alternately standing or seated guests. A further object of the invention is to provide such a table removably attached to its base, so that it may be used in conjunction with any standard make of table base.

lith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the particular construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more specifically described and shown in its preferred form in the accompanying drawing, it being understood that alterations and modifications,y

consistent with the claim hereunto appended may be resorted to, without departing from the principles of the invention.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical 'cross sectional view of a table constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a partly sectional, partly elevational view of a portion of the same, on an enlarged scale, the section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by arrows, and some parts being broken away; Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross section taken on the line SH3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the upper end of the pillar forming a part of my device.

The same part is designated by the same reference character throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 5 is a table base of any standard make on which is mounted, removably attached thereto by a screw bolt 6, a tubular pillar 7, having inwardly projecting annular flanges S, 9 and 10, at a small distance from its bottom and top ends, and at its upper gral with a tubular leg 17 adapted to slide up and down in the pillar 7. The leg 17 is provided, near its lower end, with two lugs 1S easily passing through the slots 11 and 12 and closely fitting into the pockets 13. Another pair of lugs, 19, is formed at the upper end of the leg 17, intermediate the inner ends of the ribs 16 which latter are eut away as at 2O to allow the lugs 19 entering the pockets 13, when the table top is lowered, as seen in Fig. 1 of the drawing. In this position, the table accommodates seatedV guests and, in order to transform it for the use of standing guests, it is only necessary to lift the top 14 until the lugs 18 are out of the pillar 7, then give it a quarter turn and lower it down again, so that the lugs 18 enter into and sit in the pockets 13.

The flanges 8 and 9 serve for the purpose of maintaining the leg 17, in its vertical position so as to prevent it from wabbling, in the lowered and raised position of the table top, respectively.

I claim:

A lunch room table comprising, in combination, a hollow standard, a plunger adapted to slide therein, lugs carried by said plunger, near the lower end thereof, an inwardly projecting collar on the upper end of said standard, recesses in the top surface of said collar, in which said lugs are adapted to rest and be engaged, other inwardly projecting collars in said standard, adapted to hold said plunger firmly in vertical alinement with said standard, and a table top carried by said plunger, the respective proportions of said standard and plunger, and the respective postions of said lugs and collars being so coltable top be at standard height of a lunch culated thzttwhen seid plunger is in its room table for standing persons, the lower lowest position, the table top be at standard end of said plunger being enga-ged by a col- 10 height of a lunch room table for seated perlar intermediate the uppermost ancl lower- 5 sons, the lower end. of said plunger being moet ones.

engaged by the lowerrnost collar, and when said lugs are resting in said recesses, the EDWARD REISCHMANN.

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